Well, here we are again. It's fall sports season! And it's the start of our 11th year offering our specialty product, the Shooting Star custom sports portfolio, to our clients. Hopefully you are about to join the more than 400 Kern County families who have used our service. Here's what you need to know, along with a sampling of the photos we did for our clients the past couple of seasons.
Charlie Devers played safety and even shed a little blood
for his East High Blades last season.
Entering our client pool: We handle our fall sports load by establishing our client pool, then setting our shooting schedule so that we get as many opportunities as possible to photograph your athlete. Our service is limited to 20 athletes, for all sports combined, during the fall, winter and spring seasons. Once we reach 20 clients, the pool is closed and we do not accept any other athletes. The schedule is set based on the clients who are in our pool at the start of the season. Once the season starts, we only add clients from schools in which we already have clients. Thus it is critical that you are in our client pool at the start of the season, or shortly after the season starts.
Randall Chafin had an outstanding season as a two-way
starter for the Garces Rams.
Our fee and what we deliver: Our fee for the 2009-10 school year is $500. This is a flat-rate fee, there are no packages. We do not shot on speculation and do not sell pictures on the web. We guarantee two complete games of coverage, and deliver a multimedia slide show on DVD and a set of images for you to use as you choose. The fee is per athlete. All portfolios are completed and delivered before Christmas. Sorry, but we do not shoot multiple athletes and allow the fee to be split. We only shoot the athletes we are commissioned to photograph. When we are at the game, we are working for you, our attention is 100 percent on your athlete, and we do not do "piecemeal" shooting for other parents who want a few pictures but have not commissioned our services. In other words, we only do portfolios of individual athletes and nothing else.
Our product is more about telling a story and capturing a special time in your athlete's life, which is what we did for Bakersfield Christian volleyball stars Janie Atkinson and Tori Hoffmann.
Payment and billing: We require a 50 percent deposit or payment in full before we begin photographing your athlete. We are no longer willing to begin the shooting and production process without first receiving the deposit. We offer online credit card payments using any credit card. We simply e-mail you a link and this takes you to PayPal, where you can easily make your payment. This has proven to be very popular with our clients. You also have the option of paying by check.
Centennial's Brock Bivens will be able to look back on his
outstanding senior season thanks to the portfolio we shot for him.
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